Church of San Esteban (Aramil)
- Title Siero Asturias Centre
- Address Address: ■ 33518 - Aramil
- Period Period: Romanesque
- Management Management: Ecclesiastical
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The church of San Estaban consists of a single rectangular nave, covered with a wooden structure, and a lower, narrower chancel forming a semicircular apse. The triumphal arch is semicircular and rests on two columns on each side, the capitals of which are very deteriorated.
The most important decorative elements are found in the two doorways, west and south, and in the apse.
The west doorway is made up of two archivolts in round arches, the inner one plain and the outer one with a zigzag decoration, which rest on two columns with capitals with vegetal motifs and chesses. Above this doorway is a stone skull from another part of the church, which was in the cemetery until 1960.
The south doorway has two semicircular archivolts, the inner one decorated with Zamoran scrolls and the outer one with beaked heads biting into a moulding, a moulding and impost lines with interlacing and vegetal fretwork, reminiscent of the Romanesque style of Amandi.
In the apse, the decoration is very varied, centred on the cornice, the corbels and the central window with a semicircular arch, with an archivolt and dust cap, as well as the band of checkerboard that runs halfway up.
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